The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit by Chief Ambrose Owuru, who was the presidential candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the 2019 general election, seeking to sack President Bola Tinubu from office.
In a unanimous decision by a five-member panel of justices, the Supreme Court on Monday awarded a fine of N5 million against the plaintiff.
The panel, which was led by Justice Uwani Musa Abba-Aji also warned the Registry of the Supreme Court not to accept any frivolous originating summons from the plaintiff again.
In the suit he filed directly at the Supreme Court, Owuru, among other claims, alleged that President Tinubu is an active agent of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the United States of America (USA), a position he argued makes him unfit to occupy the presidential seat.
The plaintiff also asked the apex court to disqualify Tinubu on the account that he had earlier forfeited the sum of $460,000 to the government of the USA in a drug-related case.
Owuru further specifically prayed the Supreme Court to invoke section 157 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended, and remove Tinubu from office for being under the control of foreign authorities.
Didactic Information Hut recalls that Owuru, who is a British-trained lawyer and who was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1982, had earlier dragged ex-President Buhari to court in an attempt to unseat him.
And had also failed at previous attempts both at the lower and Supreme Courts to sack Tinubu.
But this time, the justices of the Supreme Court queried Him on why he re-filed such a frivolous suit that had been dismissed three times.
The head of the panel blasted him for conducting himself in a way she said was unbecoming of a lawyer that has spent over 40 years in the legal profession.
To buttress the Court’s anger, Chief Owuru was fine the sum of N5m with a threat to forward His name to the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee, LPDC, for appropriate sanctions.
This fine followed an earlier one by the Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal which had on May 25, 2023, also imposed a N40million fine against Chief Owuru for filing a “frivolous” suit to stop Tinubu from being sworn in as president.